THE Philippines Football League’s (PFL) 2021 season will be played in July, instead of April, to give way to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League which was rescheduled for April.
PFL Commissioner Coco Torre told BusinessMirror on Thursday that the AFC only recently announced the new Champions League schedule which covers April 7 to 17 for the preliminaries and April 17 to May 7 for the group stages.
Domestic teams United City and Kaya-Iloilo are playing in the Champions’ League for finishing 1-2 in the PFL last season.
“We are now eyeing to start the season in July as we would also want a clear path heading towards the resumption of the league which will be celebrating its fifth season,” Torre said. “We have a very slim window in May as we’re still deliberating on whether to play that short time [in May] or just focus our sources to a much bigger and longer league starting July.”
Torre also said that they are avoiding a collision in schedule with the World Cup Qualifiers in June where the national team will resume its bid to advance to the global stage.
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